"No one ever said Iraq was behind 9/11." What are you f*cking retarded? When one asks "Why did we invade Iraq" and the administration replies "Because we were attacked on 9/11", that is a claim that they were connected. Simply because they never used the line "Saddam attacked us on 9/11" doesn't mean that they didn't claim he had a hand in it.

It was played off as Iraq was responsible just weeks after 9/11. Alas, the American people were blind to it. Only when gas prices rocketed due to issues in the middle east did they pull their heads out of their asses.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-poll-iraq_x.htm - at one point 70% polled said they thought Saddam was involved... who do you think they're getting that link from? Dennis Kucinich? I think not.

Either way, radical islamists are still blowing themselves up on people and now have even targeted neutral Germany and Canada. "WE HAVE NUTTIN TO DO WITH 'MERICA LOL." Yet that obviously doesn't protect them. But yeah, that's off-topic anyway. 5'd because this was interesting.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/hayes.911/ - heres just one of many examples of GOP politicians claiming Saddam was linked to 9/11... responsible ones like McCain at least expressed doubt but even Cheney kept saying they would neither confirm nor deny reports of links with Al Qaeda...

you're missing the point of my comment Refractor, I'm commenting with regards to this YTMND. But you shouldnt ignore the fact that a great deal of Americans believed Iraq was involved, was one of many points of support for war, that Iraq was part of the 9/11 revenge...

What should be obvious more than anything is that its clear by how long they avoided saying this line that to get what they wanted it was obvious they WANTED people to make the connection even if it didnt exist. This Clintonesque parsing of language doesnt work for me any more now than it did with any other president.

and since i doubt many will click the link i gave, heres the important part: "Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11," Rep. Robin Hayes said.
Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places." Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not. - others disagreed, but that direct connection DID get made...

"But you shouldnt ignore the fact that a great deal of Americans believed Iraq was involved, was one of many points of support for war, that Iraq was part of the 9/11 revenge..." I support the war, but I was not one of those americans. Iraq had nothing to do with revenge for 9/11. So what if Bush says Iraq was not responsible for 9/11? Nobody I knew ever thought it was.

"We went into Iraq for WMDs, nobody ever said it had anything to do with
Afganistan not that it was directly related to 9/11....seirously, pay
attention to politics people."
O Rly douchebag? http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0314/p02s01-woiq.html

"I support the war, but I was not one of those americans. Iraq had nothing to do with revenge for 9/11." - thats great for you, I'm glad, but not only did that poll from right when the war begin indicate others DID, I myself have known SEEEEEVERRRRAL, including my religious grandparents, who did.

Refractor is retarded, as are most of the people who are downvoting this.
God dammit you people are f*cking retarded if you don't understand why this is so ironic. Learn how to vote or gtfo out of the US you useless twats.

Bush repeatedly uses 9/11 to justify Iraq... that's why this is funny. By admitting that 9/11 has 0 to do with Iraq but still using it to justify Iraq he shows that he is openly racist. Think about it.

The hilarious thing is that it is now all the rage to take statements made by this administration in previous years, and deny them as silly. Somehow some people (like the downvoters here) are gullible enough to erase their memory of past statements and accept the new ones as if they were always the administration's arguments.

"We invaded them because they rejected UN inspectors for their nuclear
program, it had nothing to do with terrorist attacks, hence why he says so" - the inspectors were in and they had Iraq actually dismantling the AlSamoud2 missles they actually DID have. saying they were rejecting the inspectors left and right is bullsh*t.